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,
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F2EA2B634290FC8B" box="[151,397,871,893]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">Thasycles humboldtiana</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F2EA2B8142DBFC6D" box="[151,454,901,923]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">Dematochroma humboldtiana</emphasis>
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Jolivet
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[white label] (MfT).
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, 13: Cotypus [red label], Mt. Humboldt,
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13: Cotypus [red label], Mt. Humboldt, Gipfel
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, F. Sarasin &amp; J. Roux leg. [pale blue label],
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m. Det. K. M. Heller 1915 [white label] (MfT); 13: Mont Kouakoué,
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, J.A. Jurado-Rivera leg. (IBE-JGZ).
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was described from an unknown number of specimens collected on Mount Humboldt, the second highest mountain in
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(
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), in the mountain range south east of Grande Terre, on
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(
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). Of the two
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, currently in the MfT and
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collections, that in the former is designated here as
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, and the other as
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. The original description of this species was sufficiently detailed for the recognition of the species and it is complemented here with the description of the median lobe of the aedeagus, while the female still remains unknown.
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Male genitalia: Penis (
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) regularly curved in lateral view; weakly, but gradually narrowing towards pointed apex in sagittal plane. Apical third of penis progressively widening slightly before ostium in dorsal view, reaching maximal width (1.5x wider than width at middle) 2/3 before apical end of ostium; ostium egg-shaped, with narrower end basally; sides curved, gradually converging towards apex; apex of penis with blunt round apical short tooth, 0.25x as wide at base as maximal width of penis, 0.5x as long as wide at base. Without prominent ventral features, except for very shallow and wide short median depressed area preapically.
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F2BA2E9E427DF945" bold="true" box="[199,352,1690,1715]" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">Distribution.</emphasis>
This species must be rare or rather localized.
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Jolivet
<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F1CB2E9840F2F945" box="[950,1007,1691,1715]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">et al.</emphasis>
(2007a)
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in their second study on New Caledonian
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did not find other specimens besides those included in the
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series from Mt. Humboldt. The discovery of the species in Mont Kouakoué merely expands its area of distribution to the nearby massif, southeast from Humboldt by less than
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, across the Ni River valley. Nonetheless, these two massifs probably constitute a single biogeographic unit, since other high altitude leaf beetles such as
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F65D2F2F47E6F8B5" box="[1056,1275,1835,1859]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">Cazeresia montana</emphasis>
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Jolivet
<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F7272F284688F8B5" box="[1370,1429,1835,1859]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">et al.</emphasis>
, 2005
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, or
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F2862F544269F891" box="[251,372,1872,1895]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">Zira nitens</emphasis>
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, only occur on both mountain peaks (
<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F6692F54479CF891" box="[1044,1153,1871,1895]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">pers. obs.</emphasis>
). The narrow geographic endemism of these species, occupying island-like environments within an island is suggestive of strong ecological specialization. This could be perhaps related to host associations with plants presenting this same relictual pattern. However, the purported host plants of both
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F0FC2FBF41EDF824" box="[641,752,1979,2002]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">Cazeresia</emphasis>
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as well as
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F1112FB84081F825" box="[876,924,1980,2003]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">Zira</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C41F1D62FBF47F4F825" box="[939,1257,1979,2003]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">Dracophyllum involucratum</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761F4C40F75D2FBF43A3FF46" italics="true" lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="40" pageId="8" pageNumber="39">Myodocarpus</emphasis>
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spp., respectively (
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Jolivet
<emphasis id="B976EACF761E4C40F397289D413FFF46" box="[490,546,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="40">et al.</emphasis>
2005
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), grow on ultramafic soils in other parts of southern Grande Terre (
<bibRefCitation id="EF934B2C761E4C40F72F289343CFFF22" author="Oliver" pageId="9" pageNumber="40" refString="Oliver, W. R. B. (1952) A revision of the genus Dracophyllum: Supplement. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 80, 1 - 17." type="journal article" year="1952">Oliver 1952</bibRefCitation>
; Anonymous 2011), where these beetle species have not been found to date. However, host specialization coupled with climatic change, e.g. range contractions driven by Quaternary climate change cycles, could be responsible for these species relict distributions. Alternatively, the hypothesized restricted ranges of
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<emphasis id="B976EACF761E4C40F776290143DCFEB6" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="40">D. humoldtiana</emphasis>
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and other leaf beetles in
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could be later stages of natural biodiversity cycles resulting from evolutionary and ecological interactions among species, as explained by the taxon cycle or taxon pulse hypotheses (
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;
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).
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